Dr. Smith is an award-winning writing and literature teacher at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is currently the Instructor of Rhetoric and Literature at New Aberdeen College in Charlotte.
Dr. Abigail Lundelius Smith earned her doctorate in American Literature from the University of South Carolina where she completed her dissertation on the sacramental role of tables in American literature. Her master’s degree is from the University of Dallas where she became acquainted with Dr. Louise Cowan’s Genre Theory, which serves as the framework for her approach to literature studies. She and her husband, Ryan, have four children.
Selected Articles:
Lay It All on the Table: Death in the American South, The Southern Quarterly. Volume 53, Number 1, Fall 2015
Critical Introduction to William Gilmore Simms’ Dramas, University of South Carolina Press (2016)
